East European History
Table of Contents
Courses
History 0200
Historical Timelines
History 1270
Useful Links
Maps
Related Sites
News Sources
Library Resources |
|
Topic One - Lecture One:
Definitions and framework
What's in a name and what's our region?
- Eastern Europe
- East Central Europe
- Balkans
What/who is included in our region?
A. Ethno-linguistic groups
- Slavs (East, West, South)
- East Slavs: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarussians
- West Slavs: Czechs, Slovaks, Poles
- South Slavs: Bulgarians (originally Turkic), Serbs, Croats, Slovenians,
Bosnians
- Estonians (Prussians)
- Lithuanians & Latvians (ancest. Balts)
- Albanians (Ancest. Illyrians)
- Hungarians=Magyars
- Romanians (Wallachia, Moldavia, & Transylvania. Ancest: Dacians/Thracians
& Romans. Language is Latin)
- Germans
- Jews
B. Religions
- (conversion to Christ. 1000 a.d. later than in Western Europe. Lithuanians
last to convert in 13th c.)
- Eastern Orthodoxy (Byzantine)
- Roman Catholicism
- Uniate Church (Greek Catholics) 16-17th c. merger of Cath and Orth
/Ukrainians, Romanians
- Protestants/Lutherans, Calvinists, Unitarians, Baptists
- Moslems in Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania
- Jews
III. Eastern Europe at Present
- Positive changes since 1989
- Negative changes since 1989
- What do you know about Eastern Europe?
- What does the N.Y. Times, Christian Science Monitor, RFE/RL, PPG, etc.
report about this part of the world?
|